Category: Blog News

If you’re an emerging or mid-career artist with a unique, powerful voice that demands a bigger stage – well. . . Here. It. Is.

We want contemporary artists. Your medium could be one of many (or several of many) – painting, sculpture, installation, video, photography, mixed-media – we want voices that believe in their art and want the world to know.

Attend one of our four regional casting calls around the country and we will consider you for participation in this groundbreaking show.

via Casting – Bravo TV Official Site.

thx Jay

The best was the photographer who did the triumvirate for me of contemporary photo cliches: the HDR-Canvas-Gallery Wrap. Could it get any worse? But people, the audience eats it up.

via  Look Underfoot.

It’s not that they can’t make money offering free. They can, have and will. The problem is that they know that it’s literally impossible to be the king of the mountain forever. But that won’t stop them from trying. And that is exactly what will kill them.

via Mark Cuban on paidContent.

I am not sure that a young man beginning in journalism in 1938 would find opportunity in as great a mood of welcome as one who began about the turn of the century. About 1925 and after, advertising, which once fed the printed word alone, began to divide with the spoken word, the radio. The number of periodicals and newspapers began to contract. The little town of West Chester, when I started there in 1892, had three daily papers; by the 1920s it had but one.

via Jack Shafer – Slate Magazine.

Excellent video interview over on WTJ? with Mr. Toledano.

Lynsey Addario, Ziyah Gafić, and Seamus Murphy have been invited to join VII Network and  Adam Ferguson to join VII Mentor Program. He will be mentored by Christopher Morris.

This latest piece of personal work is all shot in one shot on 5×4 transparency. I commissioned a model maker Ridley West to make a giant plate that we could attach to the wall and with the help of Jennie Webster who sourced some amazing balloons this shot was the result.

via David Sykes Photography News.

FFL Paris won the press Grand Prix for its Wrangler campaign shot by Ryan McGinley
(here)

We’ve created a system that rewards work that is increasingly unknown to anyone outside the business. We have become connoisseurs of esoterica. And in the process, we’re becoming more about us, and less about changing the world.

Read the rest on  Advertising Age.

“They are brands that may not be considered cool by the often elitist and self-absorbed standards of New York media,”

via- NYTimes.com(here)

The first time a previously expensive good or service is made free, we’re drawn to it precisely because of the freeness. The fifth time or tenth time, not so much.

– via Seth’s Blog: Too much free.

“As our visual education and proficiency continues to increase over time, it will be important for newspapers and magazines to captivate us and draw us in by using photographs in even more powerful and creative ways, let’s hope they are up to the challenge.”

via « Horses Think.

John Harrington is filing video reports from the Look3 Festival of the Photography in Charlottesville, Virginia (here).

A nice addition to the blog-o-sphere is Douglas Stockdale’s, the photobook blog (here). He’s nearing 50 reviews and has lots of resources for photobook lovers.

Found it on Exposure Compensation (here).

More (here).

“If you’re going to do this [give someone as clean a sheet of paper as possible], you have an obligation to use what you get, because your choice was hiring this person, not in judging the work you got when you didn’t have the insight to give them clear direction in the first place.”

via Seth’s Blog.